Comanche Hill

The personal blog of Mark Morga.

In this article, I write about build vs buy and what that really means in an enterprise setting. My goal is to inform decision makers about what they are getting into (from a technical perspective) when buying enterprise applications. You have to approach the “buy” decision as though it was...

I’ve come across some environments built to help people (and especially kids) to learn programming. Sonic Pi is perfect for people with an interest in music. It’s a live coding synthesizer that lets you perform music using code (a Ruby DSL). Check out the demos – it’s pretty cool. One...

I’m not a huge fan of UML. I think it took a simple idea (standard conceptual drawings) and made it much more complex than necessary with the unwise goal of allowing commercial UML tools to flourish and make code-to-diagram round trip conversion something people might want to do. Something like...

Back when I last “did” Windows development, .Net didn’t exist and the Windows CMD prompt was one of the first things I replaced (with Cygwin). Unfortunately, last time I helped someone with a Windows machine the Cygwin install didn’t go well - it seemed to be mired in the past,...

The bottom line, it’s well worth seeing with a couple of caveats below. The Good: The most amazing visuals that I’ve seen in a movie. The imagery is like seeing great science fiction paintings come to life. The 3d on a 4k digital projection is by far the best I’ve...